Turkistan Islamic Party

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), also called the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), is a Sunni Muslim terrorist group that was formed in 1997 with the goal of creating an independent Islamist state of Turkestan in what is now Xinjiang province of northwestern China. The charter of the party said that its goal was to liberate East Turkestan from "Communist Chinese occupation" and to cooperate with Mujahideen across the world to "empower Allah's sharia on the world" and restore the caliphate. The ETIM was allied to fellow jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda, the al-Nusra Front, the Taliban, and Islamic State.